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That may be the worst counterexample you could conjure up. The first self sustaining nuclear reactor, electronic computers, information theory itself, etc were all political projects that are impossible to divorce from politics.

They even made a whole movie about the politics of nuclear science last year, it was a massive hit.
That’s also a good reason to underpay, historically.
Very specious comment. From the actual article:

> Additionally, death certificates included a field for reported usual occupation (the occupation in which the decedent spent most of their working life), generally completed by a funeral director with help from the decedent’s informant.

So, not as closed-case as you suggest.

Slam-dunking on studies is a top-tier trope on HN. All studies are flawed, but some are useful.
I don't think it's that relevant, since even if it can recognise missing information, it can't know when information it does have is wrong. That's not possible.

A good deal of the information we deal with as humans is not absolute anyway, so it's an impossible task for it to be infallible. Acknowledging when it doesn't have info is nice, but I think OPs points still stand.
> were barbaric apes

(Looks at the news) Sadly, still pretty much are.

There’s a huge contrast between how much human intelligence had achieved scientifically and culturally, and how humanity (at large, on a global scale) behaves itself.
If you are not allowed to have a sick day without facing physical punishment (a threat obfuscated to the public by it being a threat of being shipped to a more dangerous facility, so I.E. a major threat of danger and permanent maming made clear to the slave but a threat somewhat obscured to the general public) what would you call it? You are not allowed bad days. You are not allowed slow days. You must work to the guard's (whose bonus depends on it) satisfaction.

Or maybe your cell/tier gets extra shakedowns, and it's made known it's because you made a guard mad, you are going to get beat down. Based on your work performance. What would that be called?
I agree with you, but it's just simply not how these things are being sold and marketed. We're being told we do not have to verify. The AI knows all. It's undetectable. It's smarter and faster than you.

And it's just not.

We made a scavenger hunt full of puzzles and riddles for our neighbor's kids to find their Christmas gifts from us (we don't have kids at home anymore, so they fill that niche and are glad to because we go ballistic at Christmas and birthdays). The youngest of the group is the tech kid.

He thought he fixed us when he realized he could use chatgpt to solve the riddles and cyphers. It recognized the Caesar letter shift to negative 3, but then made up a random phrase with words the same length to solve it. So the process was right, but the outcome was just outlandishly incorrect. It wasted about a half hour of his day. . .

Now apply that to complex systems or just a simple large database, hell, even just a spreadsheet. You check the process, and it's correct. You don't know the outcome, so you can't verify unless you do it yourself. So what's the point?

For context, I absolutely use LLM's for things that I know roughly, but don't want to spend the time to do. They're useful for that.

They're simply not useful for how they're being marketed, which is too solve problems you don't already know.
Agreed - I use GPS to do the initial pathfinding - in much the same way I'd use a paper map in the old days.

It's part of why I have a good sense of direction.
If anyone's feeling inspired, what I would love to read is a conspiracy theory about how an AI did it.

Part of my wants to read it since eventually we will reach a point where an AI might have done it. I don't know if that's a year away or a hundred years away, but aside from being interesting reading, plausible science fiction does bring ideas.

Terminator views differently in 2024. The basic idea of Skynet -- where an AI unexpectedly achieves sentience -- has gone from "that's not how computers work" to well within the realm of possibility for how some systems might evolve.
The temperature and radiation it has to endure is impressive, but I'm more blown away by good old fashioned gravity assists to yeet the probe and not have it fall into a fiery well of gravity.
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what I meant was they sold goods across state lines, which absolved _buyers_ of paying sales tax. I will edit my original comment to clarify.
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According to statista, the leaders in cloud marketshare are (in order): AWS, Azure, and GCP [1]. I don't believe Apple has any significant cloud offering.

There is a question about the sustainability of consumer electronic devices but that's a whole different can of worms. As an aside, I appreciate how Apple pioneered long support commitments in phones.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market-share-...
The problem is no one is talking about this. We’re clearly headed towards such a world, and it’s irrelevant whether this incarnation will completely achieve that.

And anyone who poo poos ChatGPT needs to remember we went from “this isn’t going to happen in the next 20 years” to “this is happening tomorrow” overnight. It’s pretty obvious I’m going to be installing Microsoft Employee Service Pack 2 in my lifetime.
Without biological reproduction wouldn’t the evolutionary outcomes be different? Cyborgs are built in factories, not wombs.
What specific gripes do you have with WebAuthN that makes you want to reimplement it?

All the problems I have with it as a user originate from either reyling parties doing dumb/user-hostile things (enforcing resident keys even though I'm perfectly capable of remembering my email address or my username, improperly layering WebAuthN with existing second factors etc).

These are possible because WebAuthN is trying to provide for many use cases at once, but I've never felt like it was missing something, and user-friendly behavior is definitely possible. I've seen many examples at this point.
Nat Friedman organized testing of 300 different bay area food products. More information and top line takeaways here:

https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1872728491290189944
I don't think so: it seems reasonable to assume that biological neurons are strictly more powerful than "neural network" weights, so the fact that a human brain has 3 orders of magnitude more biological neurons than language models have weights tells that we should expect, as an extreme lower bound, 3 orders of magnitude difference.
You're ignoring that I specifically included soft power. Garnering sympathy as an underdog is a historically effective form of soft power.

To your point: not to sound like an antisemitic conspiracy theorist, but it's pretty clear that while the Jewish people have been the victims of many tragedies, they also have managed to accumulate a great deal of political soft power as well, even while being a disadvantaged minority.

That's why certain types are so obsessed over the so-called "culture war". While some people just want a right to live and love who they want, the currently dominant cultural factions see that as a threat to their ability to, among other things, control the narrative of history for their own gain.
100% of online webstores enjoyed the very same "benefit".

I am disputing your assertion that Amazon was successful because of this. By that logic, all online webstores would be Amazon today... yet, there's only one Amazon.

In fact, the recent changes to online sales tax collection have places a significant burden on smaller online webstores. You now need a 3rd party service to calculate taxes for the gazzilion tax jurisdictions all across the US. In some cases you have to guess if you meet the minimum thresholds for collecting taxes in certain states. The entire thing is a mess.

Regardless, nobody is not purchasing online because they have to pay sales tax. Amazon's early appeal was being able to buy darn near any book and it was delivered to your house a few days later. No longer were you limited to the inventory of your local Barnes & Noble, etc.
I’ve heard this many times, also from good sources, but is there any gears level argument why?
How could anyone tuned into Google be surprised about this? Pichai's Google has barely managed to make a consumer facing product/SaaS that wasn't inevitably killed off, barely worked at all, or competing with a parallel Google product at the same time. Their latest woes with AI and internal culture clashes are just the latest bubble rising to the surface of what's been going on internally for a very long time.
I think human brains are a combination of many things. Some part of what we do looks quite a lot like an autocomplete from our previous knowledge.

Other parts of what we do looks more as a search through the space of possibilities.

And then we act and collaborate and test the ideas that stand against scrutiny.

All of that is in principle doable by machines. The things we currently have and we call LLMs seem to currently mostly address the autocomplete part although they begin to be augmented with various extensions that allow them to take baby steps in other fronts. Will they still be called large language models once they will have so many other mechanisms beyond the mere token prediction?
I mostly agree with you. I suppose we should distinguish between a "proposal" and a "solution." I guess a "solution" actually satisfies a set of constraints whereas a "proposal" could just be dead on arrival because it fails to satisfy one or more constraints. The lower-level person is probably not even aware of all the constraints, so whatever proposal they come up with likely isn't going to be a solution. Demanding that they come up with a throwaway proposal doesn't do a lot of good.

Example: The school lunch program is failing to adequately feed students. The first-year teachers stuck with lunch duty see it, the students see it, etc. No doubt that they can come up with some proposal that involves spending more money on the lunch program, and they can even identify some other area to take the money from, but they don't necessarily see the big picture to know why that might not be possible (e.g. tax dollars or grant money can only be spent in certain ways) or what the negative effects might be (e.g. why money is currently being spent in that other area).

This is another way I've seen people get squashed by executives. As people were trained to offer a proposal when reporting a problem, they did so, but then it gave the executive an opportunity to just focus on explaining why the proposal can't work instead of just listening and asking follow-up questions to better understand the problem.
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With that argument, fascist regimes would be pretty close to the truth, since they were criticized by both liberal democracies and communist countries.

Also, you’re assuming there are always only two positions on a given topic. I know it might look that way on Twitter—most people today seem weaponized to pick one side or the other—but real social studies are far more nuanced than that.

The fact that everyone criticizes you only means that whatever you say doesn’t align with their narrative, not that you’re close to the truth.
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I think o1 and o3 are OpenAI stretching the usefulness of 4o. Anecdotally the latest Claude model is naturally better than 4o, and having it use inference tokens to think through or verify work results in similar o1/o3 gains. Are we sure we can't do even better than Claude 3.5 Sonnet/new without inference tricks? We're only a few generations into LLMs... I don't see why not.
I'd love it if the slam-dunkers occasionally went out and made their own, better, studies to show the world how to do it correctly.
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No, iTerm is not slow. Ghostty is not noticeably faster in any of my workflows. I am sure Ghostty is faster in some use case, but it's nothing I regularly do or have noticed.
I choose to interpret that as Matt calling himself and idiot and saying we won't hear from him anymore because he's done strutting and fretting.

But it's probably wishful thinking, I know.
Previous discussion, when it was first discovered - I am surprised there wasn't more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893116
Is there any spaced repetition system that doesn't require me to tweak a bunch of parameters to get good results? I would love if it could just learn how I learn and adjust accordingly. I want to be able to pop in 4x a day or just once or just skip some days and have it adjust accordingly, instead of just leaving me with a huge back log.
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One of these things is unremarkable to the extent that it happens all day, every day.

The other is uncommon in developed countries that mostly follow the rule of law.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
I've worked at military contractor jobs for years, and there are many people there who believe this - if the taxpayer is paying and the software isn't classified, then it should be open source.

Ghidra is a great example of this, and having this software be free has been of great benefit to the security community.
That’s a much harder problem than VW would need to solve. Also, Find My substantially predates the Find My network and AirTags.

There are very straightforward solutions, depending on the threat model. For example, the app could send VW a private key every day, and VW would send that key to the car. Then the car sends periodic location reports, encrypted to that key. VW can, upon request, send the report to the app, which decrypts it. But VW can’t decrypt the report itself, so they don’t know the location of the car. Also, it’s forward secure in the sense that a leak of VW’s database is entirely useless after a day.
The IAF did not fly over Iranian airspace, they launched ballistic missiles from Iraq.
> What is the top 10% of the Internet that isn't part of some publishing arm of existing media?

Why does that even matter?
192 km/s is pretty insane.

That's 0.06% of light speed?

And a bit over 10x what the Voyagers are traveling at?
Copyright theft? Spew much copyright propaganda. Even courts don't call it theft[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(19...
I doubt you can count on those growth numbers based on the number of famine events they have in North Korea.
> They are the kinds of sayings that are formed through experience re-enforced over generations.

Sure, but the whole point is that the conditions that led to those sayings would no longer be there.

Put a different way: those sayings and attitudes were necessary in the first place because society needed people to work in order to sustain itself. In a system where individual human work is no longer necessary, of what use is that cultural attitude?
I, for one, am looking forward to harvesting spice on Arrakis.
This is why SignalR in .NET land is so popular in that ecosystem. It automatically falls back to SSE if web sockets aren’t available. In essence giving totally transparent real time communication.
> they were not allowed by Russian authorities to land in Grozny or any of the other nearby Russian airports

They were not denied landing. It was not possible to land. The weather excluded visual approach, there was no ILS and landing with GPS wasn’t possible due to jamming, which started because of the drone attack.

There’s fair share of responsibility on Russian air defense which has not ensured safety of civilian aircraft, but that flight should not have happened in the first place, so that’s on Russian government which did not close the airspace in advance and on the airline which decided to continue flights despite that it has already been known that air defense us working in the area.
Yep. Even a tiny fraction of a trillion dollars is a hell of an incentive for people of too little moral conviction.
Reminds me of the stories about people slavishly following Apple or Google maps navigation when driving, despite the obvious signs that the suggested route is bonkers, like say trying to take you across a runway[1].

[1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-maps-bad_n_3990340
It's the same kind of people who claimed human flight would not be possible for 10,000 years in 1902. I just can't understand how narrow your mind has to be in order to be this skeptic.
But the site isn't a .com anyway...
Each capital letter is a type and each lower case letter is a function from one type to another. You can trace a path in the diagram to talk about a bunch of function calls (e.g following f then g then n represents n(g(f(a)))). This is called a diagram. Then the statement that a diagram is commutative says that if you trace any two paths that share a start and end, they are equal.

So n(g(f(•))), s(r(l(•))), s(m(f(•))) are all paths/function calls you could make to get from A to C'. Since the diagram is said to be commutative, those paths are all equal.

Being a monomoprishm, epimorphism, or isomorphism are all important properties of functions that say you're allowed to "cancel" on both sides of an equality. e.g. in general, if f(g(x))=f(h(x)), you can't conclude that g(x)=h(x). If f can be cancelled in that way, it's called a monomorphism. Similarly if g(f(x))=h(f(x)) lets you cancel the f to get g(x)=h(x), f is called an epimorphism. An isomorphism is both. This kind of thing let's you "walk backwards" along some paths in the diagram in certain situations.

One flavor of theorem you might see in category theory (like the example five lemma[0]) looks like "look at this diagram. if g is an epimorphism and h is a monomorphism then f is an isomorphism". So if I know I can cancel this way and that way, I learn I can cancel this other way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_lemma

> The five lemma states that, if the rows are exact, m and p are isomorphisms, l is an epimorphism, and q is a monomorphism, then n is also an isomorphism.
Sam Altman and OpenAI aim to become the gods of a new world. Compared to that goal, it makes sense that money feels trivial to them.
When this attitude becomes too prevalent, important problems either don't get reported at all or morph into "the problem is that we're not implementing my exact solution". That's how you end up with pervasive organizational problems festering, while executives develop a wholly disconnected model of what's happening at the company, with the solutions that manage to get through partially addressing the problem at best.
This is basic "mind palace" theory, no? Human memory is linked to navigation; the more you associate memories with navigable places, the stronger your memories will remain.
I mean, the thing you quoted and said you disagree with is just clearly true. Take it to the extreme:

Someone a week out of school can identify a problem that requires thousands of people coordinated by leadership across the organization to solve.

It isn't "people don't want to think" or a failure to "challenge people to be creative" to recognize that many problems require significantly more experience or expertise to propose a solution to than to identify.
All I care about, (and I guess I don't care than much because I'm not a US citizen) is, has this move allowed them, or their contributors to pay less tax. That is their only obligation to the public.

Was the non profit a way to just avoid tax until the time came to start making money?
Or how women’s contribution to sciences were continually overlooked and sometimes purposefully hidden, going along with the social/political status of women.

History is stories we tell ourselves about the world, stories backed by the evidence not yet lost to entropy. But which stories we choose to tell and which to forget — and what records to preserve — are always influenced by politics.
This becomes a thing and I'll have a 25mph sign hanging off the back of my truck. I eagerly await starting a youtube channel of new cars losing their shit on jammed tailgating attempts.
Not surprisingly as the EU grew out of post war coal and steel association
This is great; very mature organizational thinking.
Most new cars have features that require it such as onboard GPS, speed limits on the dash, OnStar and similar features.
This may be the "cell phones in public" stage, but society has completely failed to adapt well to ubiquitous cell phone usage. There are many new psychological and behavioral issues associated with cell phone usage.
It's entirely possible to divorce the histories of those developments from politics, giving just the progression of discoveries and technical improvements. The next level up from that is to just touch on major political currents or events and how they shaped the development; and that's the most that some technical buff would care about. You would have to add several orders of political detail before you can call it a political history.
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> I was just sold bench.co [...] made me sign a payment agreement with Capchase. The agreement states that I still owe Capchase the full amount for a year, even if Bench.co shuts down...

I might ask a lawyer if that looks like fraud. (And then wouldn't be surprised if the lawyer can quickly make it like the sale never happened, other than your time wasted, and the lawyer fees.)

Or maybe ask your state AG's office if that looks like fraud.

(Edit: I mean the appearance that Bench.co was entering contracts to provide service for a period, knowing that they probably wouldn't provide that service, and, further, attempting to obligate you to pay for service for the entire period anyway. Or something like that. I'm not a lawyer, so I'd ask one.)
It wasn’t clear to me that DJB and Lange in the title were names of persons.
That requires achieving post-scarcity to work in practice and be fair, though. If achievable, it’s not clear how it relates to AGI. I mean, there’s plenty of intelligence on this planet already, and resources are still limited - and it’s not like AGI would somehow change that.
I am Polish. I know this from experience. The parts of history we focus on are the parts where we lost. When a society loses political power - it focuses on history and culture to survive (as opposed to "integrating"). Which influences the culture in a self-reinforcing way. Very easy to end up with martyrdom complex.

That's what Jews have been doing for 2000 years and their history is one of the best studied out there.

When a society wins political power - it looks into the future. A few eggheads will write the history but nobody'll read it.

Soft power is secondary - it comes FROM losing and focusing on history. Victors go split the loot, losers go write how they were the "moral winners".
I think that is the case with Sam, but not Ilya and probably not with some of the other founders.
What extensions do you use which are not supported under mv3? I'm sure there are some chromium forks like brave which will also get this support for free.